Battleship Potemkin, sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 Soviet silent epic film produced by Mosfilm.
Directed
and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein, it presents a dramatization of the
mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship
Potemkin rebelled against their officers.
The
film is a prime example of the Soviet montage theory of editing, such
as in the "Odessa Steps" scene, which became widely influential and
often recreated.